Texting and Driving

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Texting and Driving

« on: July 30, 2009, 12:29:17 PM »

wtf?

Driver texts, talks, hits car, crashes into pool
http://news.yahoo.com/s/a...odd_tow_truck_driver_pool

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LOCKPORT, N.Y. – Police said a Buffalo-area tow truck driver was texting on one cell phone while talking on another when he slammed into a car and crashed into a swimming pool. Niagara County sheriff's deputies said 25-year-old Nicholas Sparks of Burt admitted he was texting and talking when his flatbed truck hit the car Wednesday morning in Lockport.

The truck then crashed through a fence and sideswiped a house before rolling front-end first into an in-ground pool.
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Re: Texting and Driving

« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2009, 12:43:37 PM »

multi-task fail.

Serious note - I'm surprised we don't see more stories like this one. I am seeing more texting/talking on the phone all the time. Almost watched a young lady take herself out the other day as she drifted into another lane while texting away.


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Re: Texting and Driving

« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2009, 12:45:08 PM »

Quote from: Fuzzy on July 30, 2009, 12:43:37 PM

hate! Drives me nuts. I hated everyone else on the road long before the cell phone was invented, now it's just out of control.


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